HUST Team Won the Grand Prize in “Star Teacher” Contest of Heilongjiang Province Held in HUST

From: School of Foreign Languages

Translated by: Wang Yongqin Edited by: Ma Yanhui

On November 9, the 2019 “Star Teacher” contest of Heilongjiang Province was held successfully in HUST. HUST team performed well in the competition and won the grand prize in the competition. Lu Yan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of HUST, Jiang Kun, Director of the Higher Education Department of the Provincial Department of Education, Chang Xiaoling, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Song Qingkun, Director of the Educational Administration Department, Jiang Yufeng, Chairman of the Foreign Language Teaching Professional Committee of Heilongjiang Province, and all the leaders of the School of Foreign Languages attended the opening ceremony of the contest.

The 2019 “Star Teacher” contest of Heilongjiang Province is an important provincial foreign language event hosted by the School of Foreign Languages of HUST. It is supervised and coordinated by the Higher Education Department of the Provincial Department of Education, and sponsored by the Foreign Language Teaching Professional Committee of Heilongjiang Province and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. The contest team consisting of five teachers contestants including Wang Shurui, Zheng Erdong, Wang Yongqin, Chen Hong, Cao Fei, etc. of HUST passed the fierce competition of the preliminary and rematch, and competed with Harbin Normal University, Northeast Forestry University, Daqing Teachers College, Qiqihar University and other 12 universities in the province successfully qualified for the final. In the final, our team performed well, and won the Grand Prize. This competition will be held simultaneously with the 2019 FLTRP Star Teacher Contest. The team of HUST will be the only one of Heilongjiang province to go straight to the 2019 FLTRP Star Teacher Contest national finals, representing Heilongjiang Province.

Lu Yan, Deputy Secretary of the School Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. On behalf of HUST, Lu Yan first extended a warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to the attending experts, teachers and students, and introduced the outstanding achievements of HUST in the 70 years of development. Director Jiang Kun, attended the opening ceremony, and on behalf of the Higher Education Office of Heilongjiang Province, he first expressed his warm congratulations on the success of the competition and expressed his heartfelt thanks to the competition organizer, co-organizer, and organizer. Jiang Yufeng delivered a speech on behalf of the Foreign Language Teaching Committee of Heilongjiang University. He said that as socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a new era, China's higher education has entered a new era of “improving quality and connotative development.” Foreign language courses, as the main fulcrum for training international talents, will definitely play an important role in this reform process. Deputy Editor-in-Chief Chang Xiaoling, on behalf of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing House, pointed out that “advancing with the times, serving the country, and building people” is the most important purpose of hosting the “Star of Teaching” contest. This competition puts forward results-oriented, pays attention to the design of golden courses, not limited to classroom teaching itself, and advocates from curriculum design to classroom design. At the same time, this competition breaks the convention and encourages foreign language teachers to form collaborative teams and improve together.

Since 2019, the School of Foreign Languages of HUST has hosted the 2nd National High-tech Forum on Foreign Language Education Development of the Science and Technology Colleges and the 1st Undergraduate Foreign Language Innovation Competition, Harbin “Russian Spring” Sino-Russian College Student Russian Competition, and the 4th Northeast College Students Korean High-level events such as speech contests. The successful holding of the “Star Teacher” contest of Heilongjiang Province is a reflection of the leadership and organization of the School of Foreign Languages and the concentricity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness of the teachers and students. Teachers of the School of Foreign Languages insist on in-depth study of teaching theories and methods, design courses and implement teaching, and reflect the high-level, innovative, and challenging degree of "golden courses" in the design of teaching goals, teaching content, teaching organization, and teaching evaluation. The event has promoted the building of teamwork of foreign language teachers in HUST, and promoted the development of teaching and research capabilities, innovation in teaching concepts and forms of foreign language teachers in HUST.

Lu Yan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of HUST delivering a speech

Gao Xiao, Dean of School of Foreign Languages, North China Electric Power University, commented on the event

Liu Kedong, Dean of School of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology

Jiang Yufeng, Chairman of the Foreign Language Teaching Professional Committee of Heilongjiang University, Zhao Ying, Director of the Higher Education Marketing Center of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, and Zhen Yanhua, Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, HUST, presented the prize

Director of Higher Education Marketing Center of Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press awarded HUST with the Best Organization Award